Convertible packaging
AssigneeTarget Brands, Inc.
InventorNeal Anderson
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Abstract
A shipping system comprises an article of furniture and a packaging assembly. The packaging assembly includes a container and a protective insert. The container houses the article of furniture. The protective insert is disposed within the container and is positioned to help protect the article of furniture from damage. The protective insert has at least one convertible portion that is adapted to be removed from a surrounding portion of the protective insert, transition between a first configuration and a second configuration, and form at least a portion of an accessory product for the article of furniture when the convertible portion is in the second configuration.
Claims20
A method of packing a furniture member with one or more furniture accessories, the method comprising:
- providing a shipping assembly having an outer container that is adapted to house the furniture member and a protective member, the protective member is a separate piece from the outer container;
- manipulating a portion of the protective member to create one or more modifiable sections, the one or more modifiable sections being adapted to transition from a shipping configuration to an accessory configuration, wherein in the accessory configuration the one or more modifiable sections form the one or more furniture accessories;
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- packing the furniture member in the outer container with the modifiable sections in the shipping configuration.
A method of packaging a product for shipping comprising:
- providing an outer container for receiving a primary product in a disassembled state, the primary product in an assembled state having a plurality of interconnected parts;
- providing a packaging member operably associated with the outer container, the packing member including at least one convertible portion, the at least one convertible portion being separable from a remaining portion of the packaging member and being modifiable into a secondary product that is complementary to the primary product when the primary product is in the assembled state wherein no portion of the secondary product and no portion of the primary product is formed from the outer container;
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- inserting the primary product in the disassembled state into the outer container.
A method of packing a furniture member with one or more furniture accessories, the method comprising:
- providing a plurality of parts that when assembled form a furniture member;
- providing a packaging assembly including an outer container for housing the plurality of parts and a protective insert to help protect at least one of the plurality of parts from damage, the protective insert having at least one convertible portion adapted to be removed from a surrounding portion of the protective insert and transitioned between a first flat configuration to an independent erected second configuration, whereby the convertible portion forms an accessory product for the furniture member when the convertible portion is in the second configuration;
- and,
- inserting the protective insert in the outer container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.